The U.S. Department of Commerce wants to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. It serves no useful purpose. In fact, it will skew the data by depressing response rates — while increasing the cost to taxpayers.

Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census form will serve no useful purpose, but will trigger mistrust, depress response rates, debase the quality of the information gathered, and increase the cost to taxpayers, the SPLC said in comments submitted today to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

On Saturday, August 4, the far-right group Patriot Prayer is holding a “Freedom March” in Portland, Oregon, to support the candidacy of the group’s founder, Joey Gibson, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Washington state.

A federal court today ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to produce records about Operation Border Resolve, the January 2016 immigration raids in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, during which 121 women and children were detained.

The SPLC today sued two federal agencies that operate under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for failing to provide public documents detailing their unconstitutional methods of arresting and detaining immigrants in Florida.